SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) processor-embedded high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip that boasts low energy consumption and enhanced performance. Using processing-in-memory (PIM) technology, the South Korean tech giant said it integrated AI engines onto its HBM2 Aquabolt, becoming the first in the [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to hire a record number of experienced workers for its chip business in the first half of this year, industry insiders said Friday, despite the novel coronavirus pandemic. The South Korean tech giant said its device solutions (DS) division will hire experienced workers in [...]
SUWON, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, said Wednesday it expects this year’s chip demand to grow despite concerns over the novel coronavirus pandemic. During an annual shareholder meeting, Kim Ki-nam, who leads Samsung’s device solutions division, said that “external uncertainties” will continue this year but global [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s share price rallied this month on hopes for a recovery in the memory chip market and earnings in the upcoming quarters. Shares of Samsung Electronics, the top market cap on South Korea’s stock market, closed at 49,150 won (US$41.2) on Thursday, up 3.04 percent from the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s leading memory chip and smartphone maker, has begun replacing Japanese materials with local supplies for its production of semiconductors, company officials said Tuesday, a move that could offset Japan’s restrictions on high-tech exports to South Korea. “(The company) has injected supplies other than Japanese [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — China remained dependent on South Korea in 2017 for more than half of its memory chip demand, despite Beijing’s latest efforts to foster its chipmakers on a big scale, data showed Thursday. According to the data compiled by the Korea International Trade Association and the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. predicted Friday that its second-quarter operating profit shot up nearly 72 percent on-year to post a record-high quarterly level, apparently helped by the robust performance of its chip business. The stronger-than-expected operating profit was estimated at 14 trillion won (US$12.1 billion), compared [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Group’s chief has shown a strong will to take over the memory division of Japanese tech giant Toshiba Corp., as the group’s chipmaking unit, SK hynix Inc., joined the race for the acquisition. “The bidding for Toshibia that is currently being processed is not binding. Accordingly, the price [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, said Thursday it will begin the mass production of the industry’s first mobile application processor (AP) built on 10-nanometer FinFET technology. Samsung said it plans to apply the new FinFET technology to Exynos 9 which is widely predicted [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest maker of computer memory chips, has submitted a bid to acquire a 20 percent stake in Toshiba Corp.’s memory chip business, an industry source said Tuesday. The bid is aimed at strengthening SK hynix’s NAND flash memory business as global demand for flash [...]